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THIS MONTH’S PULPITis written by David Cesarani, whose books include Eichmann: His Life and Crimes. His next book, Major Farran’s Hat:Britain’s War against Jewish Terrorism, 19451948, will be published in March by Heinemann.

RICHARDOVERY’s The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation 1919–1939will be published by Penguin in the spring.

PATRICIAFARA’s next book, Science: A Four Thousand Year History, will be published in February by OUP. She is Senior Tutor of Clare College, Cambridge.

G W BERNARDis Professor of Early Modern History in the University of Southampton. His most recent book, The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church, is published by Yale University Press.

PAUL ADDISON is an Honorary Fellow of the School of History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Churchill: The Unexpected Hero(OUP).

NIGELWESTis the author of At Her Majesty’s Secret Service(Greenhill Books) and lectures at the Counterintelligence Centre in Washington DC.

SARAHWISEis the author of The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London(Pimlico). Her investigation of late nineteenth-century East London poverty, The Blackest Streets, was published by Bodley Head in June.

ROWLANDSMITHis a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

JAMES DELINGPOLE’s Coward At The Bridge, the long-awaited sequel to his World War II adventure starring reluctant hero Dick Coward, will be published by Simon and Schuster in June.

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PATRICIAFARA The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Richard Holmes SARAHWISE The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame Ruth Richardson BRENDAMADDOX Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform Martin JSRudwick

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RICHARDOVERY Masters & Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West Andrew Roberts PIERSBRENDON Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged our Age Arthur Herman PAULADDISON Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945 Nicholas Rankin FREDERICRAPHAEL The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation Frederic Spotts NORMANSTONE The Third Reich at War Richard JEvans

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JOHNKEAY The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus Justin Marozzi ROWLANDSMITH Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer Robin Lane Fox ALLANMASSIE Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard

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FRANCESSPALDING Chagall: Love and Exile Jackie Wullschlager GWBERNARD Henry: Virtuous Prince David Starkey JULIAKEAY Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of ‘The King and I’ Governess Susan Morgan MICKBROWN My Judy Garland Life Susie Boyt NIGELWEST The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello James McNeish

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KATHERINEDUNCAN-JONES Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate STEPHENAMIDON Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson William McKeen JEREMYLEWIS Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters (Ed) Paul Willetts DIANAATHILL Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Films, Music... John Sutherland

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MICHAELJACOBS We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston JONATHANMIRSKY China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation Xinran NIKOLAI TOLSTOY St Petersburg and the British: The City through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents Anthony Cross

ALLISTERHEATH Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business Robert Reich PETEROBORNE What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century Chris Patten VERNONBOGDANOR Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy David Marquand NIGELJONES Jack Tar: Life in Nelson’s Navy Roy & Lesley Adkins JOHNCORNWELL Dissent Over Descent: Intellligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism Steve Fuller DAVIDPROFUMO Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philsophy of Jokes Jim Holt JANERYE Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma Michael Peppiatt Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait Michael Peppiatt WILLIAMCASH Seven Days in the Art World Sarah Thornton JAMESDELINGPOLE A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover’s Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash Harry Mount

CAROLINEMOOREHEAD All Our Worldly Goods Irèène Néémirovsky JOHNDUGDALE The Widows of Eastwick John Updike FRANCIS KING The Pages Murray Bail PATRICIADUNCKER From A to X: A Story in Letters John Berger RACHELHORE The Beacon Susan Hill SEBASTIANSHAKESPEARE The Vampire of Ropraz Jacques Chessex DAVIDELLIS The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein Peter Ackroyd DAVIDJAYS The Other David Guterson PHILIPWOMACKONFIRSTNOVELS

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NORMANSTONE is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.

DIANAATHILL is the author of Stet and Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhoodand, most recently, Somewhere Towards the End, all published by Granta Books.

VERNONBOGDANORis Professor of Government at Oxford, and Professor of Law at Gresham College.

KATHERINEDUNCAN-JONES’s biography of William Shakespeare, Ungentle Shakespeare, was published in 2001.

ALLISTERHEATHis editor of City AM.

JOHNCORNWELL is director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. His latest book is Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the GodDelusion.

PIERS BRENDON’s The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 has just been published in paperback by Vintage.

JOHNKEAY’s China: A Historywas published in July by HarperPress.

DAVIDELLISis Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent.

JEREMYLEWIS’s third volume of memoirs, Grub Street Irregular, was published in July by HarperCollins.

FRANCES SPALDING’s Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections was published by the Harvill Press, and her Vanessa Bell by the History Press.

DAVIDPROFUMOis author of Bringing the House Down, a family memoir published in paperback by John Murray. It now seems doubtful whether his Anus Mirabilis (a study of human hygiene) will ever see the light of day.

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